St. Patrick's Day

Hello Pre-K Families,

I hope you're enjoying the rest of your week.  Yesterday was Child Development Days in the MAES gym from 8:00 A.M.-6:30 P.M.  Many of the MAES staff members screened over 160 children ranging from ages 2-4.  It was my first time working Child Development Days, and I enjoyed the experience!

This week, our theme will be St. Patrick's Day and our letter will be "Qu, qu."  Please note that since "Q" can not stand on its own, the Fundations Curriculum pairs it up with "U" to make the /KW/ sound.  Please continue working with your child to identify and write the letters each week.  Throughout the week we will do many fun activities including making a Froot Loop rainbow, an Irish leprechaun, counting gold coins to create a pot of gold, name bingo and letter and rhyming match games.  Some of the skills your child will be practicing include: fine motor, following directions, counting, rhyming, and letter recognition.

Throughout the day, I continue to pull the children aside to test them on Quarter 2 skills.  We have been working really hard on rhyming, number recognition, and recognizing the letters in each child's name.  Whenever possible, please work with your child to identify the letters in his/her name in random order.  A fun way to do this would be to write his/her name on a  piece of paper, have your child cut them apart, and then put them into a hat or bowl.  Your child could pull out each letter, tell you what it is and then place the letters in the correct order to form his/her name.  This activity would be focusing on cutting, letter identification, sequencing, concepts of print (reading left to right) and it would be time spent with your child.  :)  You could also easily do this activity with numbers. 

UPCOMING EVENTS:

~ Book Orders are due on Mon., March 19 and Tues., March 20th.  You may return them before that time as well.

~ The Swimming FBI will be March 16th from 10:30-11:30.  If your family signed up to attend, please look for a note in your child's folder early this week.  

~Quarter 3 report cards will be coming out at the end of March/beginning of April.

~There will be NO SCHOOL for all children on March 30th as it is a Teacher Inservice Day.

Thank you to those families who take the time to read the blog that I post weekly.  I appreciate your extra effort to stay informed about what is going on during your child's school week.  Your dedication to your children and their education does not go unnoticed!  I hope you have a fantastic weekend and a great week!

Ms. Brittany

Below I have posted some pictures of Mr. Joe reading to both classes during Dr. Seuss week!  I must have accidentally deleted pictures of our other guest readers, Mr. Miller and Mr. Woller.  :(  Enjoy!